“You feel small in the
presence of dead men, and ashamed at being alive, and you don’t ask silly
questions." These words are from The
Death of Captain Waskow, Earnie Pyle’s most popular
World War II report. He wrote this after watching the American dead being
brought down on mule backs from a hill on the Italian front lines on January 10,
1944.Saturday, 24 August 2013
Ernie Pyle, the greatest war journalist
“You feel small in the
presence of dead men, and ashamed at being alive, and you don’t ask silly
questions." These words are from The
Death of Captain Waskow, Earnie Pyle’s most popular
World War II report. He wrote this after watching the American dead being
brought down on mule backs from a hill on the Italian front lines on January 10,
1944.
